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Title: Hughes' Kansas City Views
Description: Photo of Grand Avenue, looking south from 12th Street.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Night in Kansas City
Description: A small booklet featuring photographs of Kansas City that have been artistically enhanced to create a nighttime effect.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Urban Renewal Plan for the Grand Avenue South Urban Renewal Plan of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Booklet about the redevelopment of the industrial area roughly between 21st, Grand, 18th, and Cherry Streets, with maps of existing and proposed changes in land use to remove blight.
Date: 1983-10
Object Type: Book

Title: Cowherd Built Homes: "The Standard of Value"
Description: Photo of the "home of Dick Smith, 5931 Grand Ave."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Book

Title: Cowherd Built Homes: "The Standard of Value
Description: Photo of the "home of George H. Bowles, 5907 Grand Avenue."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Book

Title: KC Street Intersections
Description: Four photos of intersections: (1) "Main Street south from Eighth Street;" (2) "Walnut Street south from Ninth Street;" (3) "Grand Avenue south from Eighth Street;" and (4) "Eleventh Street [also known as Petticoat Lane] east from Main Street."
Date: 1911~
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Detailed description of the extension of Grand Avenue south to Westport from Kansas City in 1857, "decidedly one of the handsomest and most attractive streets in the State--and is evidently destined to become one of the principal business streets of the city," passing through McGee's Addition.
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains. ..
Description: Photo of the "Metropolitan Block, M'Gee's [sic] addition to Kansas City," on Grand Avenue in the 1850s.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book

Title: Annals of the City of Kansas: Embracing Full Details of the Trade and Commerce of the Great Western Plains
Description: Thorough description of the caravans of covered wagons passing through Kansas City's Grand Avenue, for trade with Santa Fe, New Mexico, "which consisted last year of over nine thousand wagons."
Date: 1858
Object Type: Book

Title: Souvenir of Kansas City and Her Fire Department
Description: Illustration of "Eleventh St., from Grand Ave., looking west."
Date: 1893
Object Type: Book